Overs hoe-fastener



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P. 8v H. H. NELSON. OVERS-HOE FASTENBR.

No. 538,270. Patented Apr. 30,1895.

Hmmmlllm` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER NELSON AND HENRY H. NELSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

OVERSHOE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 538,270, dated April30, 1895. Application led May 22, 1894- Serial No. 512,062. (No modal.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER NELSON and HENRY H. NELSON, of Minneapolis,in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Overshoe-Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to means for securing overshoes upon shoes orboots to prevent their being accidentally pulled off and to prevent aloose rubber or overshoe from dropping off.

The pbjeet of our invention is to provide a simple, cheap and easilyapplied device, which may be made of thin sheet metal and which may bestamped therefrom making the cost of the device very slight.

A further object is to provide a device which has a degree of adjustability, which will permit its use on different sizes of boots andshoes and rubbers and furthermore avoid the necessity of accuracy intheir application to the rubbers and shoes.

A still further object of our invention is to provide a fastening whichwill permit the rubber to be pushed into position on the shoe or bootWithout stooping, and to provide means for supporting the rear edge ofthe pantaloons during rainy Weather.

Our invention consists generallyA in a plate to be secured to the insidgof the heel of the rubber or over shoe,and provided with an upwardextension, and a pin or lug having a beveled lower edge over which theplate slips when the rubber is pushed into position, all as hereinafterdescribed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention Will be more readily understood by reference totheaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and inWhich` Figure 1 is an elevation of an overshoe or rubber and a boot orshoe therein, the heels of both being partly in section to more clearlyillustrate the construction and the application of our device thereto.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment for the rub-` ber andprovided with a series of small holes 9 into one of which the lug willslip When the rubber is drawn onto the shoe. The use of a number ofthese holes renders the device adj ustable to a considerable extent sothat any one of a number of different kind of rubbers provided with suchplates may be secured upon a single shoe having a lug or point 13.Furthermore the use of the several holes renders it unnecessary toobserve much care in placing the plate or strip in the rubber as someone of the holes will be sure to come near the pin or lug and the rubbermay be stretched a little if necessary in putting it on the shoe.Various means may be employed for securing the plate.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 4 the plate 15 is shown provided with a long extension16 which is bent down and with the plate forms a loop. The strip ispreferably of spring brass so that this loop may be pinched down uponthe upper edge of the rubber to clasp the same firmly. The loop issecured by an integral pointed lug 10 extending from the lower edge ofthe plate and through the rubber and through the hole 11 in the lowerend of the extension I16 where the pointis clinched. The lug may bepointed or not. To aid in drawing on the rubber and to also disengagethe same from the lug or pin 13 We may provide a cloth loop 8, the endsof which extend down through the hole 12 and are fastened by the lug 10and by engagement with the inwardly bent lugs 17 on the inside oftheplate 15. The point or pin 13, for the shoe, is preferably made on astaple, the ends of which pass through the heel of the shoe and areclinched on the inside. The top of the point or lug is flat While theunder side is preferably beveled so that the rubber may be slipped oneasily, the lug passing the holes freely. We provide a pin having abeveled IDO lower edge so that the rubber may be pushed into position onthe shoe or boot without stooping.

A more simple mode of fastening is shown in Figs. 5 and 6, wherein theplate 15 has a short extension 14 and is provided with several simplelugs or elinehing points 1S which are passed through the heel ot' therubber as shown in Fig. 6.

The metal extension 14 serves as a pry to withdraw the plate from theheel of the shoe and also serves the purpose of supporting the rear edgeof the pantaloon leg to hold the saine up out of the mud and dirt. Thispart may, however, be dispensed with at will.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, in an overshoe fastener,of a metal strip or plate having a series ofvopenings 9, one above theother and means whereby it may be secured upon the inside of a rubber orovershoe, with a pin or lug to be secured in the heel part or counter ofa shoe or boot and provided with a beveled lower z5 side', and saidplate being provided with a vertical extension to aid in drawing on therubber and in disengaging the pin from the plate, substantially as described.

2. An overshoe fastener, consisting of ametal 3o strip, said stripbeing' secured to the inside of a rubber or overshoe, and being providedwith one or more openings arranged one above the other, and a pin or lugsecured to the outside of the heel or counter of a shoe or boot, and 35provided with a beveled lower side to permit said pin to slip easilyover said plate to engage one of the openings therein, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set 40 our hands this 12th day ofMay, A. D. 1894.

PETER NELSON. HENRY Il. NELSON. In presence of- A. C. PAUL, C. G.IIAWLEY.

